Kent Coast Line

The Kent Coast line is a railway line in Kent linking Dover Priory to Margate.

Kent Coast Line
The Kent Coast Line, shown with other railway lines in Kent.
Overview
Type	Suburban rail, Heavy rail
System	National Rail
Status	Operational
Locale	Kent South East England
Operation
Owner	Network Rail
Technical
Track gauge

Kent Coast Line
Chatham Main Line to Faversham Margate Margate Sands (closed 1926) Margate East (closed 1953) Broadstairs Tivoli (closed 1872) Ramsgate Harbour Tunnel Ramsgate Harbour (closed 1926) Dumpton Park Ramsgate Town (closed 1926) Template:Superimpose5 Ramsgate St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay (closed 1916) Ebbsfleet and Cliffsend Halt (closed 1933) Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) Line to Ashford International Richborough Castle Halt (closed 1939) Sandwich Betteshanger Colliery Deal Walmer Martin Mill Guston Tunnel Chatham Main Line to Faversham Charlton Tunnel Priory Tunnel Dover Priory Dover Harbour Tunnel Dover Harbour (closed 1927) Hawkesbury Street Junction Template:Superimpose5 Train ferry to Dunkirk Add→{{rail-interchange}} Pier Junction Admiralty Pier (closed 1909) Dover Western Docks Add→{{rail-interchange}} (closed 1994) Dover Town (closed 1914) Archcliffe Junction South Eastern Main Line to Ashford International

Services

Services are operated by Southeastern. The service is hourly from Charing Cross to Ashford. Once at Ashford the train divides in to two lines. One service goes to Ramsgate via Canterbury West, and the other service goes via the Kent Coast Line.

Trains

The main trains used on the line are Class 375 Electrostars.

Class	Image	Type	Cars per set	Top speed		Operator	Notes	Built
				mph	km/h
Class 375		3 or 4	100	160	140	Southeastern		1999–2005

Gallery

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  Network SouthEast Class 411 at Dover Priory railway station in 1994

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  Class 375 at Ramsgate railway station

Kent Coast Line Media

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  • The Kent Coast lineThis map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation.

Other websites

• Media related to Kent Coast Line at Wikimedia Commons